Jessie Baker serves up an earful of tasty tunes for the 5-string banjo with his solo debut disc “Yessir!” on the Patuxent Music label.

Like water dancing on a hot skillet, Jessie’s notes come popping from this disc in a way that captures the fire of two of…

Dede Wyland. Yeah, I’ve heard that name, read it many times before. But I never heard anything by her until Keep the Light On, her new CD, was recently released on the Patuxent Music label.

Small wonder that I’d heard that name and read about her several times. This gal is good — a terrific and versatile vocalist that, despite a supporting cast of superpickers, is hands down the centerpiece of this CD….

Dede Wyland’s latest CD, “Keep The Light On” is now available on the Patuxent Music label. “Keep The Light On” features Wyland’s “pure and compelling voice… and her driving rhythm guitar that powered the sounds of Tony Trischka & Skyline for eight years.” In addition to Wyland, “Keep The Light On” features…

Jessie Baker, the teenaged banjo prodigy for Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, is working on his first solo project, an all-instrumental effort that features Baker on banjo, Dudley Connell on guitar, David McLaughlin on mandolin and fellow Flamekeeper bandmates Michael Cleveland on fiddle and Marshall Wilborn on bass.

The Baker Boys. Photo by Michael Stewart.
If you caught Karl Shifflet’s Big Country Show last summer on the Midwest bluegrass festival circuit, chances are you saw banjo wiz-kid Jessie Baker perform. He spent a stint on the road with Shifflet’s band. Not bad if you’re 17.
What you might not have seen was his brother, [...]